Workshop on Lab and Field Observations in Hydraulic Fracturing
What are the fundamental physics involved in hydraulic fracturing? Are the legacy and current simulation models able to capture them?
To answer both questions, ARMA Hydraulic Fracturing Community (200+ member strong) will hold a workshop in San Francesco on June 25, 2017. The morning session will focus on lab and field findings; the afternoon session will showcase modeling capacities with case verifications.
Technical Committee on Hydraulic Fracturing is pleased to announce the participants from four national laboratories, seven universities, and three industry affiliates. They will showcase the observations from their labs, a 1500meter deep mine, to the fields such as Marcellus, Vaca Muerta, etc:
- Bezalel Haimson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)/Moo Lee (Sandia National Lab): HF for In-Situ Stress Measurements
- Curtis Oldenburg (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab): HF in a Deep Mine: Highlights from the kISMET Project
- Tom Doe (Golder Associates): Heterogeneity and Topography in HF Stress Measurements
- Romain Prioul (Schlumberger): Lab Experiments to Validate HF Simulator
- Ahmad Ghassemi (University of Oklahoma): Experimental Studies of Geothermal Stimulation by HF
- Bruno Goncalves (New Jersey Institute of Technology): HF Monitoring with Image and Acoustic emission
- Andrew Bunger (University of Pittsburgh): Rock Breakage Mechanism Promoting Multiple HFs
- Jeffrey Burghardt (Pacific Northwest National Lab): HF Initiation and Propagation in Heterogeneous Rock
- Murtadha Al Tammar/Mukul Sharma (University of Texas): Pore Pressure Effect on HF Growth
- Diana Gomez Rodriguez/Robert Gracie/Maurice Dusseault (University of Waterloo): Cohesion and Toughness in a Transparent Rock Analogue
- Bill Carey (Los Alamos National Lab): Fracture Permeability and Evolution in Marcellus Shale
- Hamid Pourpak (Total): Vaca Muerta Case Study
More details will be available on the TCHF website: https://armarocks.org/sample-page/committees/technical-committee-on-hydraulic-fracturing-tchf-2/. Stay tuned.